Strange time to have a gig anxiety dream seeing as I think the last one I played was in Feb:
I was playing keys in a theatre show of "The Music of The Simpsons"(!) Got to the sixth track of the set and after a few moments silence realised my band mates were looking at me to play an intro. I had played along with the tracks at home sufficient to jam through them, but had no idea how I should start this particular one, or indeed the next few in the set list.
Audience starts filing out for an early interval, muttering. Cross-examination from bandmates on what the hell I was doing!
It was uncomfortable enough that when I woke up I decided to look at my phone to avoid drifting straight back into the same dream.
Not sure why I'm sharing. Anybody else had a gig anxiety dream they can remember?
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I've put it down to lack of playing live over this period
Weird times and I preferred it when I was dreaming of Salma Hayek's dance routine in From Dusk Till Dawn but then I have a huge fear of snakes
Assuming that the op isn't a regular theatre player this could be about playing in unfamiliar circumstances.
I did a school production of grease on bass years ago. I had music notes a low level light for music and fretboard and knew you're the one that I want hoo hoo hoo backwards.
On guitar I always work out what could go wrong for each application. Eg take clothes pegs for an outside reading gig. Unknown electricity supply take an RCB and so on.
Edit re no prep jams practise scales take a capo in case there's a sax player and take a tube screamer if using back line.
The dream might be wrapping up the jam with uncertainty at work though maybe.
Hang in there and enjoy the jam.
Best gig we'd played